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Fighting Words
Peter Muhlenberg gave perhaps the most dramatic sermon of the Revolutionary era.
posted 4/01/1996 12:00AM
Though Peter Muhlenberg had preached regularly for the cause of the American colonists, he decided that, in his last sermon, he would have to do something unusual to drive home his point.
Muhlenberg (1746–1807) was familiar with the unusual. He was born in Pennsylvania to Lutheran missionaries (his father, Henry, was the founder of the Lutheran Church in America). His father sent him back to Germany for schooling, but his German teachers felt he wasn’t good educational material, so they apprenticed him to a grocer for six years. Muhlenberg had other ideas and escaped to join the army before returning to Philadelphia in 1767 to study for the ministry under his father.
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He was elected to the Virginia Legislature in 1774 and became an outspoken advocate for colonial rights. Though an Anglican minister, he never confused the “invoking of divine blessing on the king with wearing a parliamentary yoke.”
He was present at St. John’s Church in Richmond when Patrick Henry gave his immortal cry, ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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